Jewelry designer Jill Golden of Flutter recently traveled to Rwanda to go behind the scenes of her Indego Africa project.

Rwanda

Rwanda

I’ve just returned from an (almost) two week trip to Rwanda. I have been partnering with the Social Enterprise, Indego Africa, for the past year and it was time for me to take my first trip. Through Indego Africa, I taught a group of women artisans the art of bead-weaving on a loom. In preparation for our third collection and a special (secret-for-now) project, I visited with the Cooperative and conducted some training.

The trip kicked off with a weekend getaway to the Volcanoes National Park for a Gorilla Trek—the same place Dian Fossey conducted her Gorillas in the Mist research! After a three hour, uphill climb, we were just feet from a family of Gorillas—an experience of a lifetime.